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The registry will be developed by consultants and shepherded by LTS staff; it will be made freely available to libraries.
[[Image:Registry UML Class Diagram.png|frame|c|Figure 1. Entity-Relationship Diagram for the Open Source Software Registry]]
== Target Questions ==
The registry is geared towards answering these questions:
A relationship can be read as a sentence.
For instance, “A Person announces zero or more Releases” and “A Release is announced by exactly one Person.”
Each entity is listed below along with its attributes.
| style="vertical-align:text-top"|Type
| style="vertical-align:text-top"|TechType
| style="vertical-align:text-top"|Enumerated list of technology types. This list will include these labels, and can be amended over time: database engine, programming language, operating system, standard|} {|! style="width:75px;text-align:left"|''Association'' !! style="width:150px;text-align:left"|Attribute !! style="width:120px;text-align:left"|Type !! style="text-align:left"|Description|-|| style="vertical-align:text-top"|Related| style="vertical-align:text-top"|AssociationType| style="vertical-align:text-top"|Enumerated list of association types. This list will include these labels, and can be amended over time: “is required to run / execution requires”, “enhances execution / execution enhanced by”
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